My old friend and former colleague Jimi Izrael wrote about how a psychotic cat named Lugosi and a poorly timed dad joke got him banned from adopting. (His rights have since been restored).

My colleagues laughed when I tried to explain that the “meteor” was in fact an exfiltration mission — the Roswell bodies are at Wright Patterson AFB — so I’m saddened but not surprised to see them join NASA in the cover-up. I will keep fighting for the truth. signalcleveland.org/meteor-sonic...

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

A few months ago, I asked the City of Cleveland for logs showing who is accessing its #Flock license plate reader images and why. They rejected the request on the grounds that state law exempts the images from public records requests. But I wasn’t asking for images …

What kind of camera is this? I know that Cleveland has #Flock license plate readers but I can’t find other photos of this model online.

I’m genuinely baffled by the idea that reporting and writing are completely separate pursuits and the latter can be automated

Everything I learn about Cleveland police use of surveillance tech raises more questions. My latest for Signal Cleveland but certainly not the last on this topic. (Bonus: an anecdote about Cleveland’s role in popularizing surveillance nearly 70 years ago.) signalcleveland.org/what-police-...

So many people are deeply cynical about politics and government, and with good reason, so it’s important to talk about the wins. A lot of people worked hard for several years to achieve this goal. They succeeded because they simply refused to give up. signalcleveland.org/cleveland-ci...

The Sparrow and Children of God by @mdoriarussell.bsky.social . I’ll need about $1b but it’ll be one of the best sci-fi series ever made.

Can personal AI accounts be hacked and mimicked? Because it seems like that would be an especially effective way to influence certain people without them ever knowing.

Reading court filings for a story and came across this at the end of an affidavit: “FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NAUGHT.” I love legalese.

I can't think of two songs that capture the current moment better than "Life During Wartime" and "Nothing But Flowers" David Byrne saw the future

It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.

Check those Gmail settings!

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

I’m honored and grateful that people in Shore Acres trusted us with the story of a beloved neighbor whose passing left a hole in the heart of the neighborhood. signalcleveland.org/shore-acres-...

Barring a mad rush to the Board of Elections’ drop box, Cuyahoga County is going to see a big drop in the return rate for requested mail-in ballots. signalcleveland.org/thousands-of...

If you’re just tuning in to the Cleveland elections, here’s what you need to know. signalcleveland.org/cuyahoga-cou...

A movie you’ve seen more than seven times with a gif.

Here's your election eve Cleveland City Council candidate spending leaderboard. The Ward 5 race is the most expensive in the city, with both Rebecca Maurer and Richard Starr spending close to $100k each. More from Weekly Chatter: signalcleveland.org/cleveland-ci...

A bit of news in our election-eve look at Bibb 2025. Mayor indicates he’s moving closer toward shaking up the police oversight system created by Issue 24: “It’s really about how do we make sure all of these regulatory bodies can work more seamlessly.” signalcleveland.org/cleveland-ma...

I understand law enforcement’s attraction to technology, but unfortunately it takes years and millions of dollars to find out that it’s not the One Weird Trick that’s going to change everything. signalcleveland.org/cleveland-to...

Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand. All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front. He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you. Fuck 'em.

I don't doubt that Trumpism will soon crumble and things will return to a seeming normal. But what worries me is whether we will again make the mistake of offering impunity to these degenerates because if so, we're just waiting around for fascism that sticks.

Check out Cleveland's Municipal Court candidates right here: signalcleveland.org/cleveland-mu...

And FTR, whether or not you believe he “deserved” to get shot (few victims of gun violence “deserve” it), these are his words: "I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

I’d forgotten that this song is used in School of Rock, which we rewatched last night for a break from the general bleakness. It’s one of my all-time favorites, a straight banger with a foreboding message. Even Joey Ramone could see the path we were on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxq...

Also, as @danahoule.bsky.social points out, one clear theme of ICE's little reign of terror is that they are EXTREMELY sensitive to murals, signs, and other displays criticizing ICE. Which means that one of the most effective ways to attack the agency is to produce those things in great numbers

Slightly diminish a band name: Urgent Meeting! at the Disco.

when i think of Colbert, i think of an interview he gave to GQ when he first took over The Late Show, and had this to say about losing his father and brothers in a plane crash. www.gq.com/story/stephe...

also, support local journalism so they can do this!

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

Today is The Buckeye Flame's 5th birthday! We launched in June of 2020 to fill the lack of a statewide LGBTQ+ newsroom in Ohio and have every intention of burning bright for the another 5 years! CHECK OUT OUR IMPACT REPORT of our first 5 years! thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/06/22/t...

Go back and rewatch watchmen anyway, be ause the cops-in-masks theme is gonna make you go "oohhhhhh. …Shit."

Among all the other things that it is, it's a very particular and strange moment in the history of streaming television that this sign exists and is being produced for upcoming protest marches.

My wife and I play this game of pointing out strangers who look like famous people. Years ago in a bookstore in Philly, I nudged her and whispered “Jason Robards” and nodded toward a guy down the aisle. Then he spoke to someone in that unmistakable voice and we were too shocked to react.

This is an excellent example of most Democrats’ worst habit: always accepting rightwing framing. It’s reflexive, like breathing. But it never works. You can’t appeal to anyone by conceding that your opponent is right about a problem, then promising to do less to fix it.

When Cliven Bundy and his family occupied federal property and engaged in an armed standoff with federal agents during the Obama administration, Fox News was apoplectic about the outrageous actions of *the government*

Like lots of cities, #Cleveland encourages residents and business owners to share video from their security cameras with police. It took the city weeks to respond to basic questions about the program, and it flatly declined to answer some. signalcleveland.org/cleveland-po...

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

Air travel sucks but airports could make it a little more fun by announcing flights to fictional places, like Gotham, Schitt’s Creek, Rivendell, Beford Falls, Letterkenny

it is crazy to me that we have pundits, pollsters and democratic strategists staring directly at trump diving head first in a quagmire of a scandal and insisting that it is bad politics to make hay of it

Cleveland homeowners and business owners, if you’ve signed up for the program to share video from private security cameras with Cleveland police, I’d like to talk to you for a story I’m working on for Signal Cleveland. connectcleveland.org

Impact journalism. Help is here for Ohioans. "More than a year of reporting by News 5 Investigator Tara Morgan and Mark Puente with the Marshall Project-Cleveland captured the attention of lawmakers, bringing on some of the changes." @taramorgantv.bsky.social www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-n...